Any gynecologist will say that overweight isrisk factor in bearing a child. And it is more difficult to conceive full women than to more slender mummies. Psychologists say: full women often live with a constant sense of guilt. For your weight, for your kind, for the risk to the child. After all, nowhere in advertising you will not see a pregnant woman in the body. Only slender with beautiful round tummies. And if you look through Instagram, it's just right to go completely insane. Women demonstrate ideal bodies only having descended from рахмановки.Портал has decided to start the project, called to relieve full women of feeling of fault for their bodies. For this, pregnant women who were never thin, took pictures and told their stories to the studio. We will quote some of them.
1. Kate Mangano, 34 years old
1/3Photo: CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto:CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto: CafeMom / Leah CooperShe tried to conceive successfully for a long time. But even when she did, the pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Doctors said that her weight was to blame. But she’s not that fat. Kate had been treated for infertility for years, but all these methods only led to her gaining even more weight. Eventually, the woman managed to find a doctor who was able to look away from her weight and find the real cause of the problem. Kate was cured, and she gave birth to a beautiful, healthy son.
2. Sarah Jane Applegate, 40 years old
1/3Photo: CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto:CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto: CafeMom / Leah CooperSarah has two children and, unlike Kate, has always been overweight. She was not particularly self-conscious about her weight and understood perfectly well that each pregnancy would reward her with a couple of extra kilos. But the shape of her belly depressed the woman. It was not round. In profile, it looked like the letter V. However, Sarah believes that you should not get too hung up on how others perceive you. The main thing is to be happy. Sarah is quite good at this.
3. Jennifer Rosato, 36 years old
1/4Photo: CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto:CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto: CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto: CafeMom / Leah CooperThis woman still had to lose weight to solve her fertility problems. Jennifer lost an incredible 50 kilograms, underwent infertility treatment. As a result - IVF. After eight years of trying to conceive naturally. Jennifer is expecting twins and constantly listens to her body. After losing weight, she had a lot of excess skin. That's why her stomach looks different from everyone else's. Jennifer is gaining weight again, but within normal limits. And she likes the changes in her body.
4. Jennifer Cervero, 31 years old
1/3Photo: CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto:CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto: CafeMom / Leah CooperShe has always had to live under the sidelong glances of passers-by. Jennifer is indeed quite a large woman. During her first pregnancy, she even wanted to explain to everyone who looked at her with surprise, bewilderment and even hostility: “I’m not that fat! I’m just pregnant.” Now Jennifer is carrying her third child and has learned to cope with excessive attention. She is sure: it doesn’t matter how much you weigh, as long as you are healthy.
5. Lauren Gordon, 29 years old
1/3Photo: CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto:CafeMom / Leah CooperPhoto: CafeMom / Leah CooperMeet the author of the Plus Size Pregnancy project. is pregnant for the first time. She is now 24 weeks along. She admits that at first she experienced unpleasant feelings, some kind of hellish mixture of guilt, insecurity and self-loathing. She had no one to rely on – all of Lauren’s friends who had given birth were thin. Perfect tummies, beautiful children. But Lauren is not like that. “Then I realized that my body is not a burden. It is a vessel in which a child grows, it is a person who knows how to love and does love. My body is a part of me, but it is not me. The fact that I am fat does not mean that I should reproach myself for it for the rest of my life. Having realized this, I was able to enjoy the precious moments of my pregnancy.”
